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New York Trend Week is again. Whereas the official Council of Trend Designers of America (CFDA) schedule for NYFW doesn’t start till Friday, Sept. 6, festivities are unofficially underway.
Beneath, a operating take a look at the highlights from New York Trend Week’s spring summer time ’25 season, up to date all through the week from FN editors.
Naomi Campbell Accepts Honor at Harlem’s Trend Row Occasion
Naomi Campbell accepted the Trend Icon Award at Harlem’s Trend Row Trend Present & Model Awards on Sept. 3. The “Night time of the Legends” occasion which additionally honored Costume Designer Shiona Turini and Harper’s Bazaar Editor-In-Chief Samira Nasr, whereas showcasing the work of Aaron Potts, LaTouché and Nicole Benefield. In her acceptance speech, Campbell appeared again on her profession and expressed her gratitude for the award and acknowledged all of the work that’s nonetheless wanted by way of equality within the trend business. “This award is as a lot theirs as it’s now my daughter’s,” Campbell stated. “I’m deeply grateful for this recognition. I don’t see it as accumulation. Moderately, I see it as a name to motion. Sure, our business has made strides, however we nonetheless have a protracted strategy to go.”
Proenza Schouler and Sorel Unveil New All-Climate Boot Collab
Proenza Schouler kicked off New York Trend Week early on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Together with
its spring ’25 assortment, the label debuted a limited-edition footwear collaboration with Sorel on the runway. The collab — which marks Sorel’s first designer partnership since its Sorel x Chloé boot in 2017 — sees new iterations of the model’s Caribou Mule and Caribou Chelsea Boot. The all-weather designs are crafted from a glossy leather-based in a palette of black, ochre and ecru. Every shoe options signature Proenza Schouler heavy distinction sew for detailing, with a customized again brand tab.
Sorel X Proenza Schouler
Lucy Liu Celebrates the Premiere of Stuart Weitzman’s Marketing campaign Movie “How Beautiful to Be a Lady”
On Sept. 5, actress Lucy Liu celebrated the premiere of Stuart Weitzman’s new marketing campaign movie, “How Beautiful to Be a Lady” on the Crosby Avenue Lodge. Liu stars within the advert alongside Aly Raisman, Christy Turlington, Issa Rae and Ming Xi. The occasion additionally marked the launch of the Stuart Weitzman Stand Sturdy Sequence: Conversations In regards to the Pleasures and Pressures of Fashionable Womanhood, Liu sat down with writer Lydia Fenet, speaking about success, motherhood, challenges within the leisure business and extra. She stated onstage, “After I began out over 30 years in the past, issues have modified fairly a bit. I’ve all the time had this imaginative and prescient of what I needed to do and the place I needed to go whatever the face that no person believed in me. I feel that’s a really troublesome strategy to begin. In some methods it fueled me.”
Kith Launches Collaboration with Giorgio Armani, Opens NYFW Pop-Up
Kith’s much-anticipated group up with Giorgio Armani is right here and it consists of three footwear types.
Based on the Italian luxurious model, the collaboration will embrace a chukka boot, hiker boot, and idler to go with the intensive vary of males’s fits and attire.
To launch the gathering, Giorgio Armani and Kith will host a particular pop-up expertise at townhouse on the Higher East Facet to coincide with New York Trend Week. The pop-up is open to the general public Sept. 6- Sept. 7 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is positioned at 170 East eightieth Avenue in Manhattan.
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